Indian shuttlers Tara Shah and Ayush Shetty secured their place within the quarterfinals with straight-game wins on day 4 of the BWF World Junior Championships in Spokane, USA early on Friday.
Within the women’ singles class, Tara delivered a dominant efficiency and cruised to a 21-8, 21-7 win over Lucie Krulová of the Czech Republic in simply 25 minutes, whereas Ayush defeated Jamal Rahmat Pandi of the Philippines 21-16, 21-12 within the boys’ singles.
Tara will face Xu Wen Jing of China, whereas Ayush will tackle Yudai Okimoto of Japan within the quarterfinals.
Within the blended doubles class, Sathwik Reddy Kanapuram and Vaishnavi Khadkekar fought arduous earlier than taking place 10-21, 20-22 to Indonesian duo of Adrian Pratama and Felisha Alberta Nathaniel Pasaributo.
The opposite blended doubles pair of Samarveer and Radhika Sharma misplaced 18-21, 17-21 in opposition to Japan’s Kenta Matsukawa and Nao Yamakita in a closely-contested match.
In boys’ doubles, Divyam Arora and Mayank Rana had been defeated by the Indonesian pair of Muhammad Al Farizi and Nikolaus Joaquin 12-21, 10-21, whereas Tushar Suveer and Nicholas Raj misplaced 14-21, 17-21 in opposition to the fifth-seeded duo of Bryan Jeremy Goonting and Aaron Tai of Malaysia.